Hello and welcome back to talking dogs. It's always great to have you here with me.

I'm Graham Hall. I'm also known as the Dogfather and that's because I've got over a decade of experience training unruly dogs

who are driving their owners to distraction. Now I won't rest until every dog owner feels confident

that they're doing the right thing by their dog, which is why I help dog owners one-to-one

on tell his dogs behaving very badly, but also on this very podcast too.

Now I've talked through what I think of as a kind of nuisance nipping with puppies on a previous episode.

That's that annoying but ultimately fairly harmless thing that they do when they're teething

and they're sort of discovering, exploring the world through their mouths, right?

But today I want to think about when nipping turns to biting, proper biting, and what you should be doing if your dog really is being aggressive.

Now before we go any further, there's a bit of a caveat with this one.

If you've got a problem with a dog being aggressive, biting, if there's any chance that someone or another dog can get hurt, then

you know, don't hesitate to seek some professional advice locally. Sadly, I can't get around to

everybody in person. What I can do on this podcast is give you a few general pointers, but that doesn't take away from what a

professional can do when they actually see your dog and work with you. So without further ado,

let's start with Phoebe. Now, she sent me a voice note all the way from Switzerland.

Hi, Graham. My name's Phoebe and I live in Switzerland with my family and my dog Max. He's a rescue dog that we got

at one year old and he is a border collie crossed with an Australian cattle dog. The real problem is

when we go on walks, sometimes he reacts aggressively to people for no apparent reason. And he has a tendency to nip

people's ankles as they walk past for no reason, as I can see. So it might be a man or it might

be a woman. It doesn't really seem to make a difference. I can't pinpoint what it is that

makes him react like that. He does it when he's on the lead.

He does it when he's off the lead.

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